Reuben Miller to Give Invited Lecture on Prisoner Reentry at American Bar Foundation
Assistant Professor Reuben Jonathan Miller will give an invited lecture, "You're in a room full of addicts! Prisoner reentry as a social institution and the 'making up' of the ex-offender" at the American Bar Foundation.
Karen Staller Receives Distinguished Faculty Governance Award
Associate Professor Karen Staller received the Distinguished Faculty Governance Award. The Distinguished Faculty Governance Award was established by the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs in 1986 and is funded by the Alumni Association. The criterion for the award is distinguished...
Richard Tolman Receives Research Professor Appointment at Center for Human Growth and Development
Professor Richard Tolman received an appointment as a Research Professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development.
Laura Sundstrom invited to speak at WMU's Evaluation Cafe series
Laura Sundstrom, MSW, Evaluation Associate with the Curtis Center Program Evaluation Group, was invited to speak at the Western Michigan Univerity Evaluation Center's Evaluation Cafe speaker series on September 30, 2015 for doctoral students, faculty, and staff. The Evaluation Center administers...
Adrienne Lapidos and Mary Ruffolo Receive Grant to Pilot a Mental Illness Intervention
Clinical Psychologist Adrienne Lapidos and Professor Mary Ruffolo received a grant from the Curtis Center to develop and pilot a novel intervention delivered by peer support specialists in a community mental health setting, designed to help consumers with severe and persistent mental illness...
Reuben Miller Receives Grant to Examine Effects of Prisoner Reentry on Inner City Black Men
Assistant Professor Reuben Miller received a grant from the U-M Center for Public Policy in Diverse Societies to examine how repeated arrest, confinement and reentry shapes the social and family life of inner city black men.
Brad Zebrack Receives Grant to Evaluate an Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Care Program
Professor Brad Zebrack received a grant from the Curtis Center in May 2015 to conduct an evaluation that supports the efficacy and value-added of exposing adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients to a defined AYA cancer care program.
Edith Lewis Published in Journal of Family Theory & Review
Professor Emerita Edith Lewis’ article, “On Listening as an Integral Element of Praxis in Feminist and Womynist Research” was published in the Journal of Family Theory & Review.
Sarah Hong and Amanda Champagne (CASC students) Featured in The New York Times on Campus Sexual Assault
Sarah Hong and Amanda Champagne (CASC students) was featured in The New York Times article, "On the Front Line of Campus Sexual Misconduct".
Matthew Chin Successfully Defends Dissertation, "Enacting Politics through Art: Encounters between Queer and Trans of Color Organizers and the Canadian State"
Matthew Chin successfully defended his dissertation, "Enacting Politics through Art: Encounters between Queer and Trans of Color Organizers and the Canadian State" and obtained his PhD in Social Work and Anthropology. Dr. Chin has accepted a position with Columbia University as an Ethnographic...